Microbial diversity and activity assessment in a 100-year-old lead mine

Heavy metal concentration, potential ecological risk assessment and enzyme activity in soils affected by a lead-zinc tailing spill in Guangxi, China

(2020) Kehui Liu et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes

(2020) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Effects of soil heavy metal pollution on microbial activities and community diversity in different land use types in mining areas

(2020) Xingqing Zhao et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Microbial diversity drives carbon use efficiency in a model soil

(2020) Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta et al.   Nature Communications

Evolution of the Speciation and Mobility of Pb, Zn and Cd in Relation to Transport Processes in a Mining Environment

(2020) Intissar Elmayel et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

DIABLO: an integrative approach for identifying key molecular drivers from multi-omic assays

(2019) Amrit Singh et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Comparison of mercury distribution and mobility in soils affected by anthropogenic pollution around chloralkali plants and ancient mining sites

(2019) Rodolfo Fernández-Martínez et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Tailing’s geomorphology of the San Quintín mining site (Spain): landform catalogue, aeolian erosion and environmental implications

(2019) Ramón Sánchez-Donoso et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Bacterial community response to cadmium contamination of agricultural paddy soil

(2019) L.Y. Luo et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Diagnosis of soil contamination using microbiological indices: A review on heavy metal pollution

(2019) Jiayi Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

(2019) Ricardo Cavicchioli et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Assessment of Potentially Toxic Elements in Technosols by Tailings Derived from Pb–Zn–Ag Mining Activities at San Quintín (Ciudad Real, Spain): Some Insights into the Importance of Integral Studies to Evaluate Metal Contamination Pollution Hazards

(2019) Mari Luz García-Lorenzo et al.   Minerals

Significant Impacts of Both Total Amount and Availability of Heavy Metals on the Functions and Assembly of Soil Microbial Communities in Different Land Use Patterns

(2019) Zhen Zhen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Soil organic matter prevails over heavy metal pollution and vegetation as a factor shaping soil microbial communities at historical Zn–Pb mining sites

(2019) Anna M. Stefanowicz et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Bacterial communities in mining soils and surrounding areas under regeneration process in a former ore mine

(2018) Camila Cesário Fernandes et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Does mercury presence in soils promote their microbial activity? The Almadenejos case (Almadén mercury mining district, Spain)

(2018) J.A. Campos et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

The Bacterial Population of Neutral Mine Drainage Water of Elizabeth’s Shaft (Slovinky, Slovakia)

(2018) Jana Kisková et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Assessment of mercury uptake routes at the soil-plant-atmosphere interface

(2018) Rocío Naharro et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY-EXPLORATION ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS

Long-term and high-concentration heavy-metal contamination strongly influences the microbiome and functional genes in Yellow River sediments

(2018) Yong Chen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The bacterial community structure and functional profile in the heavy metal contaminated paddy soils, surrounding a nonferrous smelter in South Korea

(2018) Sherlyn C. Tipayno et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Effects of Pb Smelting on the Soil Bacterial Community near a Secondary Lead Plant

(2018) Zhanbin Luo et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Diversity of microbial communities potentially involved in mercury methylation in rice paddies surrounding typical mercury mining areas in China

(2018) Xin Liu et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria as an Effective Tool for Sustainable Acid Mine Bioremediation

(2018) Ayansina S. Ayangbenro et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Contaminated sites, waste management, and green chemistry: new challenges from monitoring to remediation

(2018) Pablo L. Higueras et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Restoration of Vegetation in Relation to Soil Properties of Spoil Heap Heavily Contaminated with Heavy Metals

(2018) Marek Pająk et al.   WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION

Long-term soil metal exposure impaired temporal variation in microbial metatranscriptomes and enriched active phages

(2018) Samuel Jacquiod et al.   Microbiome

Assessment of the effects of oxamyl on the bacterial community of an agricultural soil exhibiting enhanced biodegradation

(2018) Sara Gallego et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Response of soil microbial communities and microbial interactions to long-term heavy metal contamination

(2017) Xiaoqi Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Geochemical distribution of major and trace elements in agricultural soils of Castilla-La Mancha (central Spain): finding criteria for baselines and delimiting regional anomalies

(2017) Sandra Bravo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Peaks of in situ N2 O emissions are influenced by N2 O-producing and reducing microbial communities across arable soils

(2017) Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Potentially harmful elements in soils and holm-oak trees ( Quercus ilex L.) growing in mining sites at the Valle de Alcudia Pb-Zn district (Spain)–Some clues on plant metal uptake

(2017) Pablo Higueras et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION

Approach to the potential usage of two wood ashes waste as soil amendments on the basis of the dehydrogenase activity and soil oxygen consumption

(2017) Juan A. Campos et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Response of bacterial communities to Pb smelter pollution in contrasting soils

(2017) Arnaud R. Schneider et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Effect of Silene vulgaris and Heavy Metal Pollution on Soil Microbial Diversity in Long-Term Contaminated Soil

(2017) Magdalena Pacwa-Płociniczak et al.   WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION

The biological activities of β-glucosidase, phosphatase and urease as soil quality indicators: a review

(2017) A.T. Adetunji et al.   Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

mixOmics: An R package for ‘omics feature selection and multiple data integration

(2017) Florian Rohart et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Assessing microbial activities in metal contaminated agricultural volcanic soils – An integrative approach

(2016) C. Parelho et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Heavy metals and soil microbes

(2016) Nafiu Abdu et al.   Environmental Chemistry Letters

A proposal of “core enzyme” bioindicator in long-term Pb-Zn ore pollution areas based on topsoil property analysis

(2016) JinShui Yang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Lack of functional redundancy in the relationship between microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning

(2016) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems

(2016) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   Nature Communications

Effect of Heavy Metals Pollution on Soil Microbial Diversity and Bermudagrass Genetic Variation

(2016) Yan Xie et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

(2016) Torbjørn Rognes et al.   PeerJ

Quantitative assessment on soil enzyme activities of heavy metal contaminated soils with various soil properties

(2015) Yu Xian et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Abandoned mine tailings in cultural itineraries: Don Quixote Route (Spain)

(2015) Tomás Martín-Crespo et al.   ENGINEERING GEOLOGY

A descriptive and quantitative approach regarding erosion and development of landforms on abandoned mine tailings: New insights and environmental implications from SE Spain

(2015) J.F. Martín Duque et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Microbial communities in dark oligotrophic volcanic ice cave ecosystems of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica

(2015) Bradley M. Tebo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Effect of Heavy Metals on Soil Enzyme Activity at Different Field Conditions in Middle Spis Mining Area (Slovakia)

(2014) Lenka Angelovičová et al.   BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

An estimation of mercury concentrations in the local atmosphere of Almadén (Ciudad Real Province, South Central Spain) during the twentieth century

(2014) José Tejero et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Olive mill waste biochar: a promising soil amendment for metal immobilization in contaminated soils

(2014) Amine Hmid et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Assessing the impact of biotransformed dry olive residue application to soil: Effects on enzyme activities and fungal community

(2014) José A. Siles et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality

(2014) C. Wagg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Toxicity response of a new enzyme-based functional diversity methodology for Zn-contaminated field-collected soils

(2014) Isabelle Lessard et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

PEAR: a fast and accurate Illumina Paired-End reAd mergeR

(2013) J. Zhang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   ISME Journal

Enzyme activity as an indicator of soil-rehabilitation processes at a zinc and lead ore mining and processing area

(2013) Krystyna Ciarkowska et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The Microbiology of Olive Mill Wastes

(2013) Spyridon Ntougias et al.   Biomed Research International

Selection for Cu-Tolerant Bacterial Communities with Altered Composition, but Unaltered Richness, via Long-Term Cu Exposure

(2012) Jeanette Berg et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Considerations in the storage of soil samples for enzyme activity analysis

(2012) Matthew S. Peoples et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Metal Contamination Disturbs Biochemical and Microbial Properties of Calcareous Agricultural Soils of the Mediterranean Area

(2012) Ana de Santiago-Martín et al.   ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

Effects of organic matter and ageing on the bioaccessibility of arsenic

(2011) Louise Meunier et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

Low-cost geochemical surveys for environmental studies in developing countries: Testing a field portable XRF instrument under quasi-realistic conditions

(2011) P. Higueras et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION

Assessment of Metal Availability in Soils from a Pb-Zn Mine Site of South-Central Spain

(2011) E. Ruiz et al.   SOIL & SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION

Olive mill wastewater affects the structure of soil bacterial communities

(2010) Dimitrios G. Karpouzas et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Heavy metals, occurrence and toxicity for plants: a review

(2010) P. C. Nagajyoti et al.   Environmental Chemistry Letters

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Bulk soil and rhizosphere bacterial community PCR–DGGE profiles and β-galactosidase activity as indicators of biological quality in soils contaminated by heavy metals and cultivated with Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke

(2009) M.J. Martínez-Iñigo et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Assessment of effects of heavy metals combined pollution on soil enzyme activities and microbial community structure: modified ecological dose–response model and PCR-RAPD

(2009) Yang Gao et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

(2009) M. N. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fumarole-Supported Islands of Biodiversity within a Hyperarid, High-Elevation Landscape on Socompa Volcano, Puna de Atacama, Andes

(2008) E. K. Costello et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of a Bacterial Community in an Abandoned Semiarid Lead-Zinc Mine Tailing Site

(2008) M. O. Mendez et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

METALS AFFECT SOIL BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY DIFFERENTLY

(2008) Anna M. Stefanowicz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Heavy metal distribution and chemical speciation in tailings and soils around a Pb–Zn mine in Spain

(2008) L. Rodríguez et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Effects of Heavy Metal Contamination upon Soil Microbes: Lead-induced Changes in General and Denitrifying Microbial Communities as Evidenced by Molecular Markers

(2008) Dmitri Sobolev et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health